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"Everyone's" lifespan? Is your longevity drug going to be offered for free? Are you going to use taxes to pay for everyone's right to live? Your scenario is a

• orangecat 3y ago
  Is your longevity drug going to be offered for free? They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging. Are you going to use taxes to pay for everyone's right to live? We do this already. we all know that in the current social and economic system, anti-aging drugs are just going to worsen inequality This is extreme zero-sum thinking. Has chemotherapy worsened inequality?
  • macintux 3y ago
    > They'll almost certainly be cheaper than the costs of treating the effects of aging. Will they really reduce the medical costs of aging when you take into account the longer lifespan? To borrow an argument from a different branch of the thread: if everyone lived to be only 20, would you expect that medical expenses would be more than they are today, or less?
• Teever 3y ago
  Anybody who withholds large scale distribution of these drugs while taking the drugs themselves is just painting a huge target on their back. No rational person is going to respect intellectual property rights for these sorts of substances and if they're relatively easy to produce then people will make them themselves. Anyone who tries to stop the production and distribution of them will basically be killing people with more steps and people don't take too kindly to that. These people may be living twice as long with these drugs while others die, but that doesn't make them immortal.